Category: Google PageRank & Algorithm Updates

A week ago Friday, September 2nd, we reported on a Google algorithm update, which turned out to be seen by the vast majority of SEOs and webmasters out there. Now I am seeing some more early chatter…

It has been almost a month since we reported Google ranking changes, which is rare and it looks like many folks are seeing changes in the core web search results as of early this morning. This is unrelated to the major local ranking changes I reported…

As I reported yesterday on Search Engine Land, Google announced they are launching a new search algorithm penalty, to demote mobile pages that have “intrusive” interstitials that get in the users way…

In this month’s Google Webmaster report we had a lot of unconfirmed updates, specifically signs of an update around July 25th and then maybe a roll back on August 2nd…

This morning there was a large surge in webmaster chatter around fluctuations and changes in the Google search results. The chatter began around 3am ET in the ongoing WebmasterWorld thread (note…

Over the past few days, I’ve been seeing webmasters complain and cautiously rejoice about shifts in their traffic from Google and some of the search results fluctuations…

Yesterday I ran a poll asking if you think Google will run Penguin again, most of you think yes, they will but a nice number think they won’t. Truth is, Google has said and implied many times Penguin will run again, specifically the real-time version …

We are living in a weird time – typically when I see the community begin talking about a potential Google update and it is real – the trackers, such as Mozcast and others, will light up the next day with signs as well…

As you know, we cover more Google updates, both confirmed and unconfirmed than anyone else. In fact, I get beat up when I covered unconfirmed updates…

Every day, I get at least one question about the status of the Penguin update. Well, John Mueller in this morning’s Google Hangout on Google+ said at the 55 minute mark that it still has not launched. He added…

This past month was actually fairly slow with Google Webmaster big news. The biggest topics we had were two possible Google updates to their ranking algorithm that went unconfirmed…

I am seeing some, not crazy amount, but some small chatter around a possible Google update over the weekend throughout Monday and…

Gary Illyes from Google said at SMX Advanced that although Google’s Panda algorithm is continuously updating, it still takes months and months to roll out after grabbing the new Panda scores…

I am seeing some really early signs from the SEO community chatter around a possible Google update. It is really early…

It is that time of the month again for me to post the monthly Google Webmaster report. There was a lot covered but not anything really that major, at least on the algorithmic side…

After Google going radio silent on the status of Google’s Penguin update, as we are waiting on version 3.0 – John Mueller volunteered information on this mornings…

A few months ago we reported that Google will be updating their mobile friendly algorithm in May 2016.

Google’s John Mueller today confirmed on Twitter that this algorithm has now been fully rolled out and is live in the mobile Google search result…

Over the past few days or so, the various Google search results tracking tools have been pretty wild. Tools like Mozcast have been showing stormy weather, so has SERP Metrics, Advanced Web Rankings, Accuranker and RankRanger all show lots of volatilit…

This month was pretty packed with a ton of SEO tips but the big items included many penalties, mostly manual actions. We had product review penalties, rich snippet penalties…

As we reported early last month, Google began officially killing off toolbar PageRank. It started on March 7 2016 but it officially ended this past Friday, April 15, 2016.

Any last remanent of Toolbar PageRank was officially shut off by Google…
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